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Stefan Kaschel’s home route
Stefan Kaschel’s home route
Keep in a hurry: Stuttgart-Herford
For all commuters who find 500 kilometers back home pretty boring, here’s a sure-fire tip: work on the times. For MOTORRAD editor Stefan Kaschel, the federal motorway has become the home route.
Stefan Kaschel
05/09/2008
From Herford in East Westphalia to Stuttgart deep in the Swabian region: Anyone who thinks that this is just around 500 kilometers of motorway has not yet experienced the real dimensions. I’ve been on this route for years? and every time it is an exciting journey into another world. In a world in which people sweep around their houses every week with eager expressions. To where pasta is produced on a massive scale. Just as if the potato had never been discovered. There is a hectolitre of sauce for this, which is poured over everything that is somehow edible. And a ?? le ?? at the end of each word. ?? Skyscrapers, eight-thousanders ?? ?? in Swabia they would say so. Fortunately, neither is available there.
Anyone who regularly emerges in or out of this strange world must make the transition bearable. Admittedly, it took a while for the frustration to go and the fun to come. And you have to pay a lot of money until you finally understand that the dreary back and forth can only become something if you approach the matter with the necessary seriousness and the appropriate preparation. This includes physical and mental fitness as well as precise knowledge of the route and the right bike.
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And 500 kilometers of motorway are only fun when things move forward. Because nothing is more frustrating than when the lavishly motorized mid-range sedan pulls past mercilessly, the load is so terrifying even on the straight line that you don’t dare to think about curves, or the neck muscles on the chic naked bike capitulate after just 20 minutes at full throttle.
Attentive readers have already noticed: This is first and foremost a story about speed and therefore automatically about sports motorcycles. “Meat is my vegetable” is on everyone’s lips. “Athletes are my tourers”, it should say between Herford and Stuttgart or vice versa. Because there is probably nothing (except jet fighters maybe flying) that is more fascinating than the moment when a 200 kilogram heavy, infinitely stable, incredibly strong and modern super athlete is catapulted from the waiting loop behind a comfortably rolling civic cage and catapulted himself into it with force three-lane orbit shoots. When the pulse frequency rises synchronously with the speed, the track in front of you becomes narrower and narrower and the cars all around are only colored wipers in the unreal parallel cosmos.
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It counts from the first meter: one of the most beautiful curves in Stuttgart on the Lenzhalde up to the Killesberg.
All concentration is then on the horizon, applies to any lane changers and strollers, the hand is ready to react on the brake, the eyes are glued to the inside of the visor, the engine pushes and pushes.
Far ahead the curve, wonderfully free, hopefully nobody stands in the way. One must not ignore the signs, but neither should one shrink fearfully at every little thing. Then hit the turn-in point before the curve, because every tenth of a second too late means an offset. If you don’t stay very deep behind the fairing, you are guaranteed to screw up the line, because the hurricane pulls every driver like the devil on the poor sinner’s soul. Now pressure on the inside of the handlebar end? Nowhere, really nowhere do you experience the physical connections more clearly than in a fast-approaching motorway curve ?? and pure. Just don’t flinch, stay tuned. The horizon tilts, lies directly in front of the front wheel, a fraction of a second later in the rear-view mirror.
It is incredibly present, this violence, this force that the chassis has to digest. Every bump becomes a touchstone, every degree of inclination welds man and machine together. This is not for atheists, you have to trust. No doubt. It works, it works, it works well, it goes on and on.
The world out there actually stands still until the point where nothing works. Gas off, brake, the full program. Out of the disguise, the force of the pace strikes mercilessly. Once again, trust counts, this time in the front wheel. Everything at the beginning. 130 km / h ?? until the front is free again.
For those who find this idiotic, the letter-number combinations A 2, A 33, A 44, A 7, A 3 and A 81, regardless of whether in this or the reverse order, can mean endless boredom. For those who empathize, however, they are a classic that offers everything. Long straights, narrow driveways, fastest corners, the whole thing is wonderfully embedded in nature. The clear highlight: the A 7 between Kassel and Fulda. A wonderful mountain-and-valley train.
But also one with strict regulations. For safety reasons, the guardians of peace and order have often limited the speed, especially in the technically demanding passages. Sometimes they even hide specifically in these sections of the route to control the pace. If you don’t want any discrepancies here, you should stick to etiquette. To do this, it is important to know any measuring points or to recognize them in good time.
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Shoot yourself into the three-lane orbit with force.
A perfect pit strategy is also indispensable for a good time. Because even if 500 kilometers are a long distance: If you lose time unnecessarily filling up your car or even take a pee break, you don’t even need to start. Today only tourers can get by with a refueling stop, all other types of motorcycle need two. In times of low traffic, such as Saturday mornings at the right speed, even three. The third stop can hardly be recovered, even at a constant pace far beyond 250 km / h, and such a speed is practically not feasible in the long term, even under ideal conditions.
The author’s personal record, set on a normal working day: 3:07 hours from freeway entrance to freeway exit, 3:15 hours from door to door. On a Suzuki GSX-R 1000 (K6), to this day one of the best compromises between performance, handiness, stability. Anyone who manages such a peak time gets off the motorcycle exhausted but satisfied. Recalls every ultra-fast passage, every long driveway and every refueling maneuver in record time. When the best daughter of all flies into your arms, there is something else. The certainty that every second gained was worth it.
The distance …
Map: Maucher
The personal record is 3:15 hours.
Character:
Except for the short sections from the Herford / Bad Salzuflen motorway exit to Sundern and Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen to Stuttgart West, you only drive on the motorway. The A 7 from Kassel to Wurzburg (when there is a lot of traffic, you can drive through Wurzburg without wasting time) is the most winding and exciting section, while the A 81 from the Weinsberg junction to the Wurzburg triangle is a full-throttle stage that is almost like a string interrupted only by a right-left-right chicane in the Taubertal. The same applies to the A 33 from the Wunneberg-Haaren triangle to the Bielefeld junction.
Speed limits:
The most important speed limit is undoubtedly the kilometer-long restriction of 120 or even 100 km / h between Kirchheimer Dreieck and Homberg (Efze) in a south-north direction. Discipline on the throttle is required here, while the reverse direction is not limited and thus offers the highest entertainment value. On the rest of the route there are only isolated, manageable stages with speed limits, whereby the A7 from the Schweinfurt / Werneck junction, the A 3 from the Biebelried junction to the Wurzburg junction and the A 81 from the Weinsberg junction to Stuttgart-Zuffenhausen are high Have traffic.
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